NLC serves its chief operating officer Phillemon Letwaba with a notice of intention to suspend him.
Lawyers acting for the new board, who scrutinised both the evidence and the outcome of the first inquiry, have spent weeks working on the new charge sheet.
Letwaba pleaded not guilty but admitted that some companies involving his family had been contracted as service providers on Lottery-funded projects. He argued that these companies had not benefited directly from Lottery funding and that the Lotteries Act did not preclude them from doing business with grant beneficiaries.
Letwaba, he said, was guilty of misconduct or breach of trust by accepting financial benefits of around R45-million through multiple entities linked to his family. There was also evidence that Letwaba had been involved in conflicts of interest that contravened the Lotteries Act, he told Mampane.
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